The Version Number Is Dead. Google Barely Whispers The Launch Of Chrome 8
Chrome 8 is here! Chrome 8 is here! The latest greatest version of Chrome! Joyous day, right? Don’t tell Google that. The search giant announced the (stable) launch not on their Google blog, and not even on their Google Chrome blog, but on their Google Chrome Releases blog. And in
Google App Engine Now Streamlines Push, Boosts API Limits And More
Google’s App Engine, a platform that helps developers build web applications by streamlining some of the work they’d typically have to do themselves, is getting a big upgrade today.
The App Engine team is calling today’s 1.4.0 release the biggest they’ve done this year, with features that include: a new Channel API that makes it much easier to build real-time Push events into your app; ‘Always On’, which
Bitly News Tries To Create A Hacker News For The Rest Of Us
What are the headlines people are sharing the most? A new headline aggregation site called Bitly News tries to answer that by showing the most clicked-on shortened bit.ly links on Twitter. Bitly News is not an official bit.ly product. It is an independent hack by Jeff Miller built on top of both the bit.ly and Twitter APIs. (John Borthwick, CEO of both bit.ly and betaworks, just mentioned the site on-stage at SAI’s Ignition conference as an example of somebody using